Enter TICL
TICL, an ancronym for the TealPoint Independent Code Library, represents a new initiative at TealPoint. Designed in response to the widening of the PalmOS platform, it is designed to insure that TealPoint products going forward enjoy excellent portability, stability, and compatibility with existing and future devices and platforms.

Benefits
TICL is a large effort to isolate all display, hardware, and operating system-dependent code from TealPoint programs into a single, modular library shared between all programs. Essentially, its goal is to unify all TealPoint programs so that they are no longer affected by changes in either the operating system or new devices. Instead, all programs are written with code which does not have to change when PalmSource releases a new version of their operating system or when a new device is released which supports a new input device or display mode. All the code which handles this stuff is kept within the shared library, so any changes that need to be made can be done once in the library and all applications (currently 20) can be updated at once with a minimum of effort.

With most of the useful common code between programs centralized and isolated, development is faster and more time is free for feature additions and new products. This is very ambitious, of course, and there will no doubt be limits to which applications and features can benefit from the new library. If even partially-successful, however, the benefits will be great. Imagine all TealPoint applications supporting full screen mode in a single update. Or supporting a new jog dial or additional buttons of a brand new device. Or transparently supporting expansion media as easily as RAM. Or taking advantage of a new rotating/resizing/super-resolution display. All of this is not only possible, but is the stated goal of TICL.

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